I read The Witching Hour in junior high around 15 years ago and recently decided to re-read it.. and followed through with the rest of the series. Then I realized some of the characters are also in Anne Rice's vampire books, so I decided to take that on... this is a somewhat intimidating task for me as I'm not a quick or studious reader. The Vampire Lestat seemed a little boring, then halfway through things got real interesting... looking forward to what this book has to offer.

I'm headed back to school in a couple of days. There, I will resume riding an indoor bike 10 or more hours a week, which is boring. Unlike the outdoor bicycle, however, you can read without dying. Last year I read through every narrative nonfiction book I could find (things like Richard Preston, Michael Pollan). Any recommendations for me in that genre?

Failing at finding much of that, I'm thinking of starting A Song of Ice and Fire, unless somebody has a better idea.

Just finished Chronicles of the Black Company, compiling books 1-3 of the series. Writing and prose are unremarkable, but the narrative style and some of the concepts are quite interesting. It's refreshing to read a fantasy series where the protagonists are on the side of the BBEG (albeit not always willingly) for a change.

Currently reading World War Z by Max Brooks, it's a follow up to The Zombie Survival Guide, and far surpasses the overrated prequel, IMHO. The "narrative" is very well done - it's told as disjointed accounts of the zombie outbreak by unrelated interviewees, and the reader has to piece together a map of the sequence of events and the world of the narrative as one reads it. The research is also quite in-depth and adds a layer of believability to the world.

I just finished Kevin Miknik's Ghost in the Wires. Very good book, he definitely had to wait for statutes of limitations to run out before releasing it, let's of new nformation!

I admit I am reading the Steve Jobs bio right now. When I found out it wouldn't be all fluff and out through the reality distortion field, it interested me. There is a on of good stuff, my favorite is about Joan Baez and the dress

Don't get to do much reading but picked up Ender's Game the other week and just finished it. Was a great read.. why so late? I wasn't into sci-fi when I was younger... I see that the movie may come out in 2013, should be interesting if Hollywood doesn't change it too much...

Is Ender's Shadow good?

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."

It was decent. I wouldn't say it was as good as Ender's Game but still very readable. I didn't really get the same WOW factor from any of his other Ender Wiggin books that I did from Ender's Game, which far and away is his finest work IMO.

Hard to say if he'll ever finish his Tales of Alvin Maker series either.

The next book in the Ender series is actually Speaker for the Dead. Ender's Shadow is part of the parallel "Shadow" series that follows Bean instead of Ender. Speaker for the Dead is very good, by the way. I liked it almost as much as Ender's Game.

I'm reading Black Prism by Brent Weeks and The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson.

I plan on getting reamde tomorrow, and I'll probably put the others on hold until I'm done with it.

Playing SW:TOR and halfheartedly studying for CompTIA have kept my recreational reading to a minimum.

edit: Oh craps! It's "reamde" not "readme".

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